Southfield, Whams Lane, Bay Horse, Lancaster, LA2 9AB

Southfield is a three-bedroom semi-detached house in Bay Horse, Lancaster, Lancaster (LA2 9AB). It has a recorded floor area of 89 m² (around 958 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1900-1929 and council tax band C. The latest certificate (May 2022) shows an E (score 48), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to B (score 86), a 3-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.

At 89 m² it sits well below the postcode median (200 m² across 5 EPCs), making it one of the more compact homes locally. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 80% of similar EPCs). One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2023. Past consents include an extension, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£313/sq ft) was about 39.9% above the typical sold price in the postcode. Most recent transfer: September 2022 at £300,000. That sale was during the post-pandemic price surge, when transactions cleared materially above pre-2020 trend.